Vocabulary
The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents
What is Pangaea?
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What is a mountain chain?
These are three types of stress.
What are compression, tension, and shearing?
A major belt of volcanoes that rims the Pacific Ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
These are the 4 types of soil.
What are sand, silt, clay, and loam?
The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
What is continental drift?
This geologic process is absent from the Gulf Coast states.
What are subduction zones?
This is the layer where Earthquakes happen.
What is the crust
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What is Indonesia?
This is what all of the horizons of soil together are called.
What is a soil profile?
The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge
What is seafloor spreading?
This is the process that MOST likely formed the Appalachian Mountains found in the eastern part of North America.
What are plate tectonics?
What are plate collisions?
What is converging plates?
This is what the primary waves in an Earthquake move through.
What is rock?
One is underground (before erupting) and the other is once it comes above ground.
What is the difference between magma and lava?
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What is the weathering of rocks?
The sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
What is subduction?
These processes can cause layers of rock to be arranged so that the youngest layers are found below older layers.
What are uplifting and faulting?
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What is a Primary Wave?
This landform MOST likely results from the interaction of an oceanic plate subducting under a continental plate.
What are volcanic mountains?
This layer of Soil is made up MOSTLY of large rocks.
What is the parent material layer?
A type of seismic wave that forms when P waves and S waves reach Earth's surface
What is surface waves
This process forced Nevada's mountain ranges upward over the past million years.
What is seismic activity along fault lines?
These are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.
What are seismic waves
One has erupted during the past 1,000 years and will continue to erupt. One has not erupted in the last 1,000 years but is expected to still erupt. One no longer has magma and is not expected to erupt again.
What are the differences between active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes?
Soil becomes this when microorganisms deplete the oxygen in soil through respiration.
What is anaerobic?